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Teacher's Pest

· Creature — Skeleton Pest · Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

274

Decks Running

137

In Decks

797

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Teacher's Pest

Creature — Skeleton Pest

Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.) Whenever this creature attacks, you gain 1 life. {B}

: Return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.

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Secrets of Strixhaven (SOS) · Uncommon · Illustrated by Stephanie Cheung

Final zone distribution

78 instances

1.3%

Library

33.3%

Battlefield

33.3%

Graveyard

9.0%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Dina, Essence Brewer 77 decks
2 Blech, Loafing Pest 37 decks
3 Dina, Soul Steeper 4 decks
4 Indominus Rex, Alpha 3 decks
5 Witherbloom, the Balancer 3 decks
6 Beledros Witherbloom 2 decks
7 Sméagol, Helpful Guide 2 decks
8 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant 1 decks
9 Blex, Vexing Pest // Search for Blex 1 decks
10 Coram, the Undertaker 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

274 brought · 128 players

Brought to game

274

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 50% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ -12.6pp

Players who cast this card win 20% of the time (n=44) , vs 21% when it never left the library (n=170).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 28% (n=19) — about the same as leaving it in the library. Those players survived long enough to draw it, so the gap above is about the card resolving, not just about surviving.

Observed gap -0.5pp; 95% confidence interval -12.6pp to +11.6pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=52

12%

23%

12%

10%

31%

T6-9

10%

T10+

Median 4.5 P25 2 · P75 8 · max 11

On curve 35% (12 / 52 cast on T2) Cast same turn as drawn 38%

52 of 100 times cast 52%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.